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__NOTOC__ Runamo is a cracked dolerite dike that was for centuries held to be a runic inscription and gave rise to a famous scholarly controversy in the 19th century.〔(The article ''Runamo'' in ''Nordisk familjebok'' (1916). )〕 It is located 2.7 km from the church of Bräkne-Hoby in Blekinge, Sweden.〔(The article ''Runamo'' in ''Nordisk familjebok'' (1916). )〕 For hundreds of years people said it was possible to read an inscription, and learned men referred to it.〔(The article ''Runamo'' in ''Nordisk familjebok'' (1916) )〕 As early as the 12th century, the Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus reported in the introduction to his ''Gesta Danorum'' that the runic inscription was no longer legible being too worn down. This had been established by a delegation sent by the Danish king Valdemar I of Denmark (1131–1182) to read the inscription: Later in book 7 of ''Gesta Danorum'', Saxo explains that it was a memorial by the Danish king Harald Wartooth to his father's great deeds: In spite of Saxo's report that the inscription was illegible as early as the 12th century, the Danish physician and antiquary Ole Worm declared in the 17th century that he had managed to read four letters in the description: ''Lund''.〔(An article in Sydöstran ), retrieved January 1, 2006.〕 There was considerable interest in the inscription during the Gothicismus of the early 19th century.〔Andersson 1947:222〕 The Swedish writer Esaias Tegnér referred to it in his unfinished poem on the giantess Gerðr and Axel who became bishop Absalon of Lund.〔Andersson 1947:222〕 In 1833, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters sent an expedition led by an Icelandic professor at the University of Copenhagen named Finnur Magnússon.〔(The article ''Runamo'' in ''Nordisk familjebok'' (1916). )〕〔Brate 1922:135〕 The mission was to explore the signs making use of geological and artistic expertise,〔Andersson 1947:223〕 including the geologist Johan Georg Forchhammer.〔(The article ''Runamo'' in ''Nordisk familjebok'' (1916). )〕 At first, Finnur was unable to read the signs, but resolving to read them from right to left and by interpreting most of them as bind runes, he believed he discerned a poem.〔Magnusen 1841, pp 287-320〕 This poem was an incantation by Harald Hildekinn (sic.), i.e. Harald Wartooth, for victory against the Swedish king Sigurd Ring at the Battle of Brávellir,〔Andersson 1947:223〕 or stanzas from the skaldic poem that the champion Starkad composed on the battle.〔(The article ''Runamo'' in ''Nordisk familjebok'' (1916). )〕〔Brate 1922:135〕〔Jón Helgason, ("Magnússon, Finnur" ), ''Dansk Biografisk Leksikon'' November 1938, volume 15, pp. 236-37. 〕 Finnur's report prompted the famous Swedish scientist Jöns Jacob Berzelius to undertake his own study in 1836, and he concluded that the inscription was nothing but natural cracks in the rock.〔Andersson 1947:223〕 Finnur defended his thesis in an extensive publication in 1841, but the Danish archaeologist Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae made a third study at the location in 1844, which turned the general scholarly opinion towards Berzelius' theory.〔Brate 1922:135〕〔Andersson 1947:223〕 Since then, it is generally considered to be a dolerite dike with cracks.〔The article ''Runamo'' in ''Nationalencyklopedin''.〕 ==See also== * Pareidolia 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Runamo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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